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A photograph showing the football field at Bank of America stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. All the seating is University of North Carolina Tarheel blue and the end zone is painted with the words West Virginia.
The Downtown Library, Wise Library is shown from the front of the building. A blue sign in the foreground serves as a locator.
Photograph of WVU employee Mary Veselicky. She is standing in the lobby of the WVU Health Science buildings with three large white marble columns in the background. She is wearing red reindeer antlers and a festive apron.

WVU employee helps decorate White House for holidays

This holiday season, the work of a West Virginia University employee is on display at the White House. Mary Veselicky, a program assistant in the WVU School of Dentistry Department of Periodontics, had the opportunity to spread Mountaineer spirit and Christmas cheer as a volunteer decorator.

An illustration showing an orange habanero pepper diagram and the pepper's genetic double helix on a computer screen that is sitting on top of a brown, wooden desk.
A person works in a lab. An arm is in the frame holding a large syringe that is being used to inject something into a piece of lab equipment. The stainless steel table top is covered with a variety of lab equipment.
This is a blue graphic with Duke's Mayo Bowl on the right and a gold Flying WV on the left.
A white life preserver from the USS West Virginia is mounted in a clear frame on a wall.

Kendrick family donates Pearl Harbor artifact to WVU Libraries

West Virginia University will house a lasting reminder of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor in the form of a life preserver from the USS West Virginia, a gift to the West Virginia and Regional History Center at WVU Libraries from the Kendrick family.

A student wearing a gaming headset sits in front of three computer monitors on a desk.

WVU launches esports major to help provide workforce for expanding industry

With a focus on educating students for industries of the future, West Virginia University is now offering an esports bachelor’s degree, preparing students for careers in the rapidly growing esports industry while building on the University’s already successful competitive esports program.

An illustration showing people sitting in rows at computers in a computer lab. There is a world map on the wall in front of them.

WVU to establish innovative cybersecurity education, training facility

With the ongoing threat of cyberattacks becoming more sophisticated, West Virginia University is launching plans for a cybersecurity range — a specialized software and hardware facility for education, training and research — with $750,000 in grant funding support from the U.S. Department of Education.

This is an orange graphic with the words Campus Warning in white.